Hundreds of students then held an occupation in the building lobby until police smashed in the doors and windows and forcefully removed people, then protests went out into the streets where police used pepper spray, rubber bullets, tear gas, batons and shields. Looking back at #occupationUQAM on Twitter gives a good sense of what happened

The anti-capitalist demo on May 1 in Montreal, which always gets shut down quickly by police (sometimes with hundreds of arbitrary arrests), is going to be massive this year, likely way too big to shut down, for the first time, um, ever

Public sector unions are also holding their annual May Day celebrations on May 1. 550 000 of those employees are in contract negotiations with the Quebec government and the two sides are nowhere close. They could go on a legal strike soon, rocking the province